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John Bunyan's the Pilgrim's Progress As a Vehicle of Allegory Research on Humanities and Social Sciences www.iiste.org ISSN (Paper)2224-5766 ISSN (Online)2225-0484 (Online) Vol.6, No.5, 2016 John Bunyan’s the Pilgrim’s Progress as a Vehicle of Allegory Jose George Dr. R.L.N. Raju VIT University, Vellore - 632014, Tamil Nadu, India Abstract John Bunyan, an English author and Baptist preacher is best remembered as the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678). Bunyan’s artistry, is most clearly seen in his role as an allegorist. With the publication of The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman in 1680, and The Holy War in 1682, Bunyan had shown growing resourcefulness using allegorical symbols. When allegory is used as story, additional meaning lies below the surface narrative. Allegory presumes to engage the reader with at least two narratives: the surface narrative and the underlying one below the surface that most often contains the work’s theme. Bunyan models his allegory after his own spiritual experiences and substantiates them with Biblical references. In Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan refers to a fallen world that is plagued with sin which has lost the glory of God. Christian, the central character, walks through the wilderness of this world in a quest to attain salvation. Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory par excellence and this article explores this undeniable fact with precision and clarity. Keywords : Allegory, Pilgrim's Progress, Christian, Grace, Salvation 1. Introduction The world’s literature has three great allegories - Spencer’s Faerie Queene , Dante’s Divina Commedia , and Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress , and they appeal to poets, the scholars, and to the people of every age and condition respectively. Allegory is a form of art in which, one or more additional or implied meanings are sustained running parallel to and distinct from the literal or the surface-meaning. Allegorical writing seem to have gone totally out of fashion unless Orwell’s Animal Farm may be taken as an instance of its determination not to die out. Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is still recognized as a masterpiece. The outward story of the Lilliputians may be specially interesting to the child, but the parallel, or the hidden satire of Swift on politics, culture and daily life is the allegorical undercurrent. Only a careful study reveals the intimate relationship between Bunyan’s two major works Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to the World to come . The theme of both is Salvation; ‘What shall I do to be saved’, and The Pilgrim’s Progress may be considered as Grace Abounding ‘recollected in tranquility’. While Grace Abounding is a human personal document, The Pilgrim’s Progress is a work of art, of universal significance. The Pilgrim’s Progress is not only the Odyssey of one soul, but of every Soul. 2. Objectives The English Novel as we know it today was unknown in Bunyan’s era, though prose-romances in narrative forms were starting to see the light of day. The Novel is generally sentimental; and character-drawing, psychology and subtlety are its chief characteristics. The good and evil present psychologically in his Grace abounding and in the allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress took on flesh. Psychological experience is transformed into fiction. Seasoning his evangelical purpose with humanity and humour. Bunyan achieved a unified appeal – the appeal of a great poem or novel; human richness; moral dialogue; and folklore adventure; and like all first novels, it is autobiographical. The primary objective of this study is to unearth all these aspects of this great work of art as an allegory. This article aims to portray The Pilgrim's Progress as a vehicle of allegory. 3. Methodology The Pilgrim's Progress is the most popular and highly successful work of John Bunyan and it was published in 1678. In the first part of this article I have analyzed the circumstances that have constituted the writing of the novel. In this article I have done a threadbare analysis of The Pilgrim's Progress by selecting appropriate passages and incidents that would reveal the allegorical skill of the author. A study of the critical writings done on The Pilgrim's Progress by renowned critics is incorporated to substantiate the argument. Library research method is primarily used to establish the credentials. 4. Christian - the Primary Vehicle of the Allegory The keynote of the whole First Part of the book is the lonely integrity of the ideal Puritan; Christian is the central figure. The allegory takes the form of a dream by the author. In this he sees Christian, with a burden or a weight on his back, having learned that the city in which he and his family dwell will be burned with fire, this knowledge he gained from reading a book. The story begins when, at the prompting of the Evangelist, he put his wife and children and security behind and flies from their pleading with his fingers in his ears, crying, ‘Life, life, eternal life’. Christian's singular wish is to be on the right road to the Celestial City: ‘he went like one that was all the 27 Research on Humanities and Social Sciences www.iiste.org ISSN (Paper)2224-5766 ISSN (Online)2225-0484 (Online) Vol.6, No.5, 2016 while treading on forbidden ground, and could by no means think himself safe, till again he was got into the way’. We are guided to see everything from Christian’s point of view from the very beginning, so that his desperate plight is humanly touching and convincing: we accept even his abandonment of his family because in the terms of the allegory their city is the City of Destruction, and Christian does his best to persuade them to leave it with him. As in Kafka’s novels, we are placed in the situation of the central character and accept the world around him with complete objectivity whatever intensity of nightmare it inflicts. An overflowing mountain – Mount Sinai representing the old law of sin and death – threatens to fall upon Christian with peals of thunder; a little later he has to endure foul smoke, demons, whisperings, and blasphemies in the Valley of the Shadow of Death – recalling Bunyan’s own worst temptations. But this allegory that deals with Calvinist spiritual experience and its darker side is not allowed to become morbidly subjective; Bunyan set his own experience in an inhabited world, and by so doing draws it nearer to the experience of other Christian people so that it appears less as a special and obsessed phenomenon than it does in the revelations of Grace Abounding . Christian meets on his pilgrimage people who are ‘states of mind’. Worldly Wise Man for example, is the typical – well fed, well respected tradesman. He symbolizes the dangerous inadequacy of work without faith. The Worldly Wise Man approaches Christian with pompous self-assurance: ‘How now, good fellow, whither away this burdened manner / Hast thou wife and children?’ Wiseman attempts to convince him that he will save himself a great deal of trouble by adopting a merely nominal and respectable form of Christianity. This is expressed in the allegory by an invitation, under the care of Legality and his son Civility, to take up residence in the village of Morality: ‘Provision is there also cheap and good, and that which will make thy life the more happy, is, to be sure there thou shalt live by honest neighbours, in credit and good fashion’. In the strict terms of the allegory Mr. Worldly Wiseman stands for the temptation of the World and merely conformist, ‘Establishment’ kind of Christianity. However, he appears in the narrative as a living personality, talking and acting for himself the role of a pompous humbug, the eternal bourgeois trying to tell a social inferior the way he should go – ‘Hast thou a wife and children?’ The main temptation that beset Christian and his ‘good’ friends of the puritan tribe, is Spiritual Despair. Both the folk-tale giants in this allegory are from the Chap Book romances, which Bunyan had read in his boyhood. Apollyon has scales like fish and these shining scales stand for Pride; wings like those of the dragon and feet like a bear. Out of the belly of Apollyon came fire and smoke. The mouth of Apollyon was like the mouth of the lion. Behind all the imagery of the allegory, are the details of the Calvinistic faith of Bunyan. However there is the terrible limiting doctrine already been chosen by God. Unlike St. Augustine, Bunyan traces the origin of Grace, not to Baptism but to the Calvinistic “Election”. 5. Bunyan's Characters as Personifications Bunyan is perhaps the only writer who gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete. Bunyan’s personifications became men and women. He made individuals of generalities. In his plastic hands, qualities cease to be abstractions and take shape and colour. ‘Hypocrisy’ is another temptation about which the Puritans were very much concerned. As Roger Sharrock has pointed out, this heresy or sin is symbolized by three characters: Talkative, By-Ends, and Ignorance. Talkative possessed the right ideas but converted them into formulae and jargon. Bunyan described as a ‘Tall man, more comely at a distance than at hand’. By-Ends is a near relation of Worldly-Wiseman and his corruption is suggested by a similar air of social importance with which he invests himself, ‘My wife is a very virtuous woman, the daughter of a virtuous woman… she came from a very honourable family'. By-Ends is shifty, never makes a plain statement.
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